Re: gcc v msvc anomaly

[Sisyphus <kalinabears at iinet dot net dot au>]

lrtaylor@micron.com wrote:
> That syntax may be valid for C99 compliant code, but is not valid for
> earlier versions of C.  I believe GCC supports the C99 standard.  The
> Microsoft compiler likely doesn't, especially if you're using Visual
> Studio 6, which I believe was released around 1998 or so (according to
> the about box anyway).  So, neither compiler is necessarily wrong - they
> just support different versions of the C standard.

Thanks Lyle.
MSVC++ 7.0 is the same as 6.0 - I don't have anything later than that to 
test with.

So ... with MS compilers, I presume I have to allocate dynamically - ie 
if I'm not prepared to declare with a constant expression. (Could 
someone let me know if there's some other workaround.)

Cheers,
Rob